Hey Chet! It really is a combination of knowledge and art in my opinion. As soon as leaves start changing color each year my eye immediately goes to what I need to remove to ensure the tree stays healthy and either keeps or starts producing.

A lot of folks get nervous with heavy pruning like this, but it's so important for the tree. Glad you enjoyed this one!

Hey Aaron! We're working on the timing of these this year, so glad to hear we got this one right. Pruning is so essential for trees, especially when they're young. Coming back and fixing issues with established trees is MUCH harder!

Glad you enjoyed the video and great choice on the apricot tree!

Hey Abid, glad you enjoyed this one!

Good catch Ahmad. We have grown this variety before (Flavor Delight) and the fruit are pretty small (about the size of a quarter), so we're confident these branches will be ok. We figure we can also thin as needed if the fruit set winds up being real heavy. It definitely would not hurt to bring them back further though.

Hey Daniel, glad you enjoyed this one. How is the pruning going for you? We found solid bud swelling and some leafing on our FlordaPrince peaches yesterday. Pretty much what we were expecting, but always a little nerve racking with cooler weather and near freezing temps coming for us this week!

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm almost done just have the Persian Mulberry and Moringa trees left. I will wait a few more weeks before pruning the Lantana and Bougainvillea plants that sustained some frost damage.

@@danielfisch655 I'm convinced Moses forgot to mention the Bougainvillea plague somewhere in Exodus. Satan spawn in my book having had countless, bloody battles pruning those things!

Sure thing Mary. Glad you enjoyed this one!

Hey Jennifer. Glad to hear this one was useful for you. We are going to be sharing our first pruning on our Pakistan Mulberries soon. In fact, we should be pruning them this weekend, so the video should post in a week or two.

Hey Rob. I'm glad to hear you're seeing strong growth in that pear. Our pear trees are VERY slow compared to these other trees, so our cuts are much smaller and we stick much closer to that 30% rule. I think you have the right mindset for those trees.

Hey David. Most of our trees, including this one today, are from RSI Growers in Glendale. I'll link Reid's website for you here; rsigrowers.com/index.html

Glad you enjoyed this one!

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm yeah

It's funny, because we know the trees tend to break dormancy starting in January, but sometimes we doubt ourselves. We've learned to just start in early January even though it feels early.

Great question. It's completely up to you which method you'd like to employ as they will both work. We prefer an open center, especially on apricots. In our experience it's much easier to control the overall height and width and reduce the chance of the tree toppling over in heavy wind storms. It also helps with fruit ripening as some varieties (like this Flavor Delight Aprium) set very heavy fruit all over the tree. Any fruit in the middle is ripened more evenly with access to sunlight in an open center design.

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thanks dear your clear reply with beneficial pro's con's left no more confusions & sure its easy to control the difficult pruning job by keeping center open .

What you're seeing here is the Flavor Delight (our favorite (we have 2) and SUPER productive here). We also have a newly planted Cot-n-Candy that went in the ground in October. Apriums are THE BEST! So much better than your standard apricots in our opinion.

Transplanted Farm has a good ring to it, I like it! We don't use the cuttings from these grafted trees, but are testing some mass propagation of mulberry and fig cuttings this year. Seedling rootstocks on most trees would not survive our 8.4 ph soil and we leave the grafting and propagation of these to our local nurseryman. We do share some of the pruned material with him though as he is the reason we have these great trees on the farm!

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm ive just this week post a cpl short clips, peeks at my overwintering tomatoes n raised bed build, located just outside of Tucson, 8 acres, 25 layers, 30 fruiting trees bout to be planted, im in search of a Fl Prince Peach if any suggestions

@@thepecolaboy very nice! We're still firm on suggesting Reid at RSI Growers for stone fruit. His trees simply outperform the rest in our soils. If you're ever up in Phoenix it's well worth the trip to pick up a tree or two....or more from him!

They really can be frustrating. They grow every which way!

We know just how you feel Eric. If it wasn't for years of experience making these cuts and seeing the results, we would be right there with you. Truth be told, some of these major cuts on young trees still makes me wince from time to time!

Did you guys end up getting weather yesterday? We had sprinkles off and on, but then a few decent downpours overnight last night. I know just what you mean with those mulberries. We started hacking away at them yesterday and saw the same thing happen last summer. Especially the Black Pakistan!

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Yep, same thing here. According to radar, the storms came up from the south over Tucson, hit us and Mammoth, then went northwest over Phoenix area. We're about 10 degrees cooler here, more or less, in Zone 9 A. Because of the mountains we probably get more rain than you folks. A ground squirrel dug her burrow under the mulberry probably to prune the roots. i guess when the tree is watered that's called sub-irrigation. But, there's a bed of Ajo Rojo creole garlic next to the tree. That's a very spicy garlic about the heat index of jalapenos. No digging is under them. God bless. May it rain!